VIDEO. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

[ the sound of the wind storm hollows dully against the cave walls. Loki's squidge, Bacon, can half be seen crawling in the confines of his tacky green jacket and over his knee from where he sits, sometimes ducking and squeaking when a particularly large gust hits. to keep it from screaming, Loki offers his fingers absently, which the little squidge pulls on with its pudgy arms before ducking low again. ]

Hello there, it seems like we'll be waiting this out for some time considering the weather-type circumstances. While we're all rotting away, etcetera etcetera, I thought we could amuse ourselves with a game. A little bit of team bonding funtimes, so to say. [ he twists a dark nailed hand in the air, gesturing. ]

Soo—oo ... it's called Two Truths and a Lie. How do you play? Glad you asked, it's simple! Give two true statements about yourself and add a lie to the mix, shake it up then toss it out there and see if your team members know you well enough to spot the lie.

Usually this is done with copious amounts of alcohol, but we're lacking at the moment. [ pause. ] But—ah—you could always enjoy the satisfaction of being right. It's not like we're doing much else.

NOTE | Feel free to threadjack if that's your thing!! :****

Comments

[winces]

Special paladins? [ it's not a foreign word to her, but in her world, paladins rode horses, not robot lions... ]

What makes you so special?

[secondnature]

We were drawn to them. [Uh, he thinks. That's what makes sense, right?]

Well, I was. The others kind of followed. [So, this is TECHNICALLY true, but mostly they just showed up from what he can tell.]

[winces]

So... does that mean you are their leader?

[secondnature]

No, I'm not really the leading type.

[Which Keith knows, at least.]

That's Shiro's job. I was just—uh, a catalyst, I guess? I'm not sure how it worked out how it did, but it did.

[winces]

[ tell that to s2!shiro ]

Do you mean... it's like fate?

[secondnature]

[Shiro stop being so encouraging.]

Uh, you know, it might be? But there's also some kind of space science involved with it.

[winces]

Space... science...?

[secondnature]

[Makes a sound that amounts to "do you really want me to make sense of this, do you?"

Only it's more like "I don't know," just mumbled thoroughly.]

[winces]

[ she cringes around a smile, suddenly sheepish. ]

Oh.

Well, um. It sounds really impressive...!

[secondnature]

Well ... it is. I'm just sorry I can't explain it better.

[He does feel bad, even if he can't read that sheepish expression for what it is. It's more that he kind of ran into a wall in explaining stuff.]

Do you have ... magic where you come from? [Bad save. But now he's curious.]

[winces]

[ she perks up at that, though. perhaps just as eager for the save. ]

I do, yes! Though it's not like most of the magic I've seen here... Many mages still use tomes for their spells, and most spells themselves are elemental...

[secondnature]

Do they always have the tomes with them? That sounds like it's not very useful.

[AKA it sounds slow and Keith is the most impatient person alive.]

[winces]

I suppose it might be a bit of a burden... but it's not too different from carrying a weapon around, I think. [ she taps her chin. ] They get their spells from the tomes, after all. So it sort of is like a weapon.

[secondnature]

I dunno ... I bet I could hit a guy before he got a spell off. What if he didn't remember what page it was on?

[Too shounen for RPG logic.]

[winces]

I mean they aren't constantly flipping through pages in the middle of a battle...! They study it just like any practice with a weapon might be. I think it's just, um. Like it channels their magic or something..?

[secondnature]

Oh.

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.